Dow Jones and the Temple of Doom:Do they even mine anymore? I thought they just blew the tops of off mountains are ruined entire forest ecosystems and rural communities?

They still mine, it is just far more efficient now, you don't have hundreds of guys with pick axes, you have a few guys and some pretty cool equipment doing the work. The rural communities aren't being ruined by any of it. The only thing they are being affected by is the loss of jobs as coal becomes more expensive.

DrPainMD:As soon as the solar power subsidies expire, it will go back to being more coal miners.

No, it will just be more natural gas. That's what's hurting coal right now. Nothing else. Just natural gas. As long as that's cheaper to get out of the ground that's what they'll be doing instead of coal.

Solar power is a nice supplement, but we should be building nuclear plants left and right.

/ok, maybe not directly on major fault lines//or at least not on major fault lines that are also tsunami target///and especially not on major fault line tsunami targets where you can buy used panties in a vending machine

12349876:DrPainMD: As soon as the solar power subsidies expire, it will go back to being more coal miners.

No, it will just be more natural gas. That's what's hurting coal right now. Nothing else. Just natural gas. As long as that's cheaper to get out of the ground that's what they'll be doing instead of coal.

this. Coal needs more innovation in extraction, get the price on extraction back down and then we'll have something.